Exhibition at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation du Cher, in partnership with the Musée de la Résistance nationale in Champigny-sur-Marne
Since the Liberation, the comic strip has taken over the Resistance by transmitting a certain image of the dark fighters. However, for more than 70 years, the evocation of the image of the maquisard in comics has undergone many changes. These abundant productions have led the National Resistance Museum in Champigny-sur-Marne (AAMRN), in partnership with the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation du Cher, to build a retrospective dedicated to the «ninth art» around the theme of maquis and rescue, in a region where these forms of resistance were particularly developed. This event looks back on more than 80 years of artistic creation through original plates, storyboards, archives and objects that guarantee the place of the maquis in the representations of the conflict. As a bonus, a special focus is proposed on the creation of an original work: Resistance of the wild boar. The latter is designed and scripted by Stéphane Levallois and traces the career of his grandfather, Bernard Lesourd, a Loir-et-Cher resistance fighter. After the exhibition Traits résistants au Centre d'histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Lyon (CHRD) in 2011 and La BD prend le maquis at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l'Isère in Grenoble in 2016, This retrospective also allows us to take stock of how museums have seen or evolved this subject over the past twenty years.